Friends, do any of you know a source for 21" wide ladders, a width required on a current freight car project (six rungs)? Thanks! Denny Denny S. Anspach, MD Okoboji, Iowa

What is totally interesting in the many parts of this thread is to once again be made aware of the intensely catholic interests that make up this intelligent group, the nature of which IMHO also form

Wow! This thread on resin sanding and relative kit difficulites has been immensely interesting, reassuring and informative. I have learned how large expanses of thick flash can be removed- made to dis

Friends, I am once again engaging in my usual summer push-on-the-porch to build at least several fine kits, some really challenging, and others merely enjoyable. I have no grand plan or scheme, but si

Buy machines and accessories from sources where parts and repairs where assurances of parts and repairs will be available years from now (that is how long you will have these machines!). I do not have

Bill Welch reports- If these are Z-shaped undercut door stops, they are indeed endangered and doomed species as applied, most especially if they are of the cast resin ilk. However, I was informed by o

Of course, it is hard to know the answer inasmuch as the stresses on one type of joint that may well bear up well with ACC may bear little relationship to the stresses of another type of joint, which

KISS. Pick up coupler by the shank in left hand, pick up brush in right hand, dip tip of brush into paint, and apply. Two nanoseconds. No masking is required, and by the time the spray booth would hav

3.4. Re: Rock Island aluminum box cars Posted by: "Anthony Thompson" thompson@... sigpress Tue Jul 6, 2010 9:40 pm (PDT) Decals? Romanticize? H-mmmm. Clear as mud. The Varney printed si

These handsome cars bring up once again a mystery about the lettering coloring: Sunshine includes very nice all-black decals. However, Gordon Varney produced a very nice model of this car in 8/1946 (B

Most of the drills "with the collets" are carbide, an excellent very sharp tool, but very brittle. As a result, they should really only be used in a drill press or other fixed drill source, not with t

I would agree with Tony Thompson that Maury Klein's biography of E.H. Harriman should be on one's "must-read" lists of essential substantive railroad history books. The book is both well written and a

I could not agree more on the profound benefits of stability that the sealing of ALL free surfaces of wood or paper exposed to air -in or out- will bestow on any model. If you value your modeling, and

MTH is a different and militantly (some say litigiously) independent toy train company that is well known for keeping their own counsel, while studiously ignoring all others, not the least industry st

I use a lot of them, and they are pretty good in about all respects. So far, I have left them alone as OEM on the layout and in this environment I have few personal or external complaints; but as I up

Wow! What a list! Is there yet no rail freight haulage subject that is beyond the grasp of this group? MIke.........? Denny Denny S. Anspach, MD Sacramento

16" guns were also transported to the US Army Aberdeen Proving Ground on the shores of upper Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, where they were quite often fired for years (even now?) for very high altitude,

The Milwaukee version of this distinctive and quite esoteric steel car with plated ends, plated roof, and plug doors was notoriously produced as an HO model by Gordon Varney in 1937 as his very handso

One of the problems with some (all?) Ulrich trucks is that they require the very maximum axle widths- up to 1.055"- to avoid running along lurching side to side like the most drunken of sailors. I hav

The PSC retainer valves are plastic, and as Jack Burgess reports, there can be some work (and money spent) in getting one's hands on them. I have purchased mine directly from PSC-piggy backed on a lar